A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS

Re:A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS by KingOfCoders on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:55AM (#26722567)

So RMS thinks "having" child pornography is no harm done to the child, but digitally "having" GPL code in your own proprietary code does harm to the author.

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Re:A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS by torthrowaway998 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:58AM (#26723078)

I don't believe that I have ever seen RMS using this argument regarding GPL.

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Re:A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS by KingOfCoders on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:44AM (#26723415)

So I can take GPLed code (make child pornography), relicense it under MIT (copy it to the internet), someone takes it (copy it from the internet), includes it into his own ("have it") and sells it closed source?

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